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...AMS......107 CHAPTER IX - BEGGARS...................................118 CHAPTER X - LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO PROPOSES TO EMBRACE THE CAREER OF ART............................................127 CHAPTER XII - A CHRISTMAS SERMON.........140...

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...PTER X - LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLE- MAN WHO PROPOSES TO EMBRACE THE CAREER OF ART............................................127 CHAPTER XII - A CHRIST... ...ll valise, a knapsack, which I carried on my shoulders, and in the bag of my railway rug the whole of Bancroft’s History of the United States, in six ... ...s of that glaring description which we count too obvious for the purposes of art. The landing at Jersey City was done in a stampede. I had a fixed sen... ... and set down my bundles in the hundred yards or so between the pier and the railway sta- tion, so that I was quite wet by the time that I got under c... ...ly this air is to be considered good or bad; but it belongs to that class of art which may be best described as a brutal assault upon the feelings. Pa... ...den houses, all of a shape and all nearly of a size, stood planted along the railway lines. Each stood apart in its own lot. Each opened direct off th... ... full of deportment, solemnly courteous, and doing all things with grace and decorum. In dress they ran to colour and bright sashes. Not even the most... ...y, which is the only covered portion of the church, is filled with seats and decorated for the service; the Indians troop together, their bright dress... ...re still pretty in their confusion, and the great plain that contrives to be decorative in its emp- tiness. II IN SPITE OF ITS REALLY considerable ext...

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...G AWAKE.............................................................................................................................. 62 THE GHOST OF ART.................................................................................................................... 69 OUT OF TOWN .............................................................................................

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................................................. ........... 62 THE GHOST OF ART........................................................................... ... of mud done up in brown paper, at people’s houses, on pretence of being a Railway Porter, in which character he received car riage money. This sport... ...scued and soothed. If friendless and unrescued, he is generally put into a railway omnibus and taken to Paris. But, our French watering place, when it... ...ing aspect. M. Feroce has saved so many people from drowning, and has been decorated with so many med als in consequence, that his stoutness seems a ... ...e joint Ducasse of the milliners and tailors, a wholesome knowledge of the art of making common and cheap things uncommon and pretty, by good sense an... ... littering the street; but, still, below these rents and gashes, layers of decomposing posters showed themselves, as if they were interminable. I thou... ...m and water. I embraced the oppor tunity of asking how many divisions the art and mystery of bill sticking comprised? He replied, three—auctioneers’ ... ... gas and elec tricity run to the very water’s edge, and the South Eastern Railway Company screech at us in the dead of night. But, the old little fis... ...s delicious, and our breezy hills and downs, carpeted with wild thyme, and decorated with millions of wild flowers, are, on the faith of a pedestrian,...

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... early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow ha...

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...as the red glow from the fire—which lit his eyes like 9 H G Wells adverse railway signals, but left his downcast face in dark- ness—and the scanty ve... ...m. It hung limp for a moment in mid-air, fluttered weirdly, stood full and deco- rous buttoning itself, and sat down in his chair. “Drawers, socks, sl... ...e I was still sitting under the sickly, drowsy influence of the drugs that decolourise blood, there came a repeated knocking at the door. It ceased, f... ...ooks hailed my cab, and I sprang out just in time to escape her, shaving a railway van narrowly in my flight. I made off up the roadway to Bloomsbury ... ...ere piled a multitude of those bright-coloured pot things—what are they?” “Art pots,” suggested Kemp. “That’s it! Art pots. Well, I turned at the top ... ...Come, and we must hold a sort of council of war— get Hopps to help—and the railway managers. By Jove! it’s urgent. Come along—tell me as we go. What e... ...t have found houses locked and secured; he may have loitered about railway stations and prowled about inns, and no doubt he read the proclamations and... ...urns to string. He conducts his house without enterprise, but with eminent decorum. His movements are slow, and he is a great thinker. But he has a re...

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...ation has acknowledged that it is as yet but in the fisticuff stage of the art of condensing our purest sense to golden sentences, a readier appreciat... ...mities.’ The writer was created for popularity, had he chosen to bring his art into our literary market. Perry Wilkinson is not so elaborate: he descr... ...ang—yang!’ and killed the bright laugh, shot it dead. She had outraged the decorum of the square- table only while the cards were making. Perhaps her ... ...e, and we can copy from him. Then, ah! then, moreover, will the novelist’s Art, now nei- ther blushless infant nor executive man, have attained its ma... ...h when discreetly tended, nature is unimpeachable, flower-eke, yet not too decoratively a flower; you must have her with the stem, the thorns, the roo... ...of the long saloon, tall, straight, grey-haired, martial in his aspect and decorations, was worthy to be the flag-pole for enthusiasm. His large grey ... ...stract air of his; and he was ral- lied. He confessed to being absorbed in railways, the new lines of railways projected to thread the land and fast m... ... prompted an impulse in Redworth to speak to her at once of his venture in railways. But what would she understand of them, as connected with the migh... ...k. He wanted, he said, to have a talk with Lady Dunstane. Evidently he had railways on the brain, and Sir Lukin warned his wife to be guarded against ...

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... ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no hotel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestri... ...man’s house, write thus, after leaving it: Dear and never-to-be-forgotten friends. I arrived here yester- day morning without accident, and am about t... ...bour the Black or Blue Boar, or Bull, who de- parted this life I don’t know when, and whose coaches are all gone I don’t know where; and I had come ou... ...ink of this miserable trifling, in the streets of a city where every stone seemed to call to me, as I walked along, ‘Turn this way, man, and see what ... ...ully supervised as to quality, and sold at an appointed price; re- spectable female attendants ready for the commonest women in the audience; a genera... ... I went in. It was followed by a discourse, to which the congregation lis- tened with most exemplary attention and uninterrupted si- The Uncommercial... ...t as if he were sur- prised to see it—which cannot possibly be the case, he must have seen it so often before. A sort of fur has been produced upon it... ...other singing birds are observable in the upper air, ecstatically carolling their thanks to Heaven for a fight. On the whole, the associations entwine... ...her), and he takes the boys out on sporting pretences into all sorts of suburban fields. He has likewise made them believe that he possesses some myst...

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...sity. 3 H. G . Wells Ann Veronica A Modern Love Story by H. G. Wells “The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so c... ...ER F O HER F O HER FA A A A ATHER THER THER THER THER P P P P Par ar ar ar art 1 t 1 t 1 t 1 t 1 ONE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON in late September, Ann V eron... ... was first the Avenue, which ran in a con- sciously elegant curve from the railway station into an unde- veloped wilderness of agriculture, with big, ... ...e pavement, the little clump of shops about the post-office, and under the railway arch was a congestion of workmen’s dwellings. The road from Surbito... ...ed, “dammit!” with great bitter- ness as he faced it. P P P P Par ar ar ar art 2 t 2 t 2 t 2 t 2 ANN VERONICA STANLEY was twenty-one and a half years ... ...iping away her tedium. It was a large, littered, self-forgetful apartment, decorated with unframed charcoal sketches by various incipient masters; and... ...hose empty rooms, if they were empty, were the equivalents of astoundingly deco- rated predecessors. Perhaps it was just as well there was no inherite... ...rden gate, whence T eddy, in a state of ecstatic service, bore them to the railway station. Then she went up-stairs again, dressed her- self carefully... ...come will vanish. Even un- believing biological demonstrators must respect decorum; and besides, you see—you were a student. We shall have— hardly any...

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...risy behind his quiet look of provincial wonderment at London’s sculptor’s art; and he was partly tickled as well by the singular fit of timidity ench... ...instruction; unhappily, I have to acknowledge, too late. It is a beautiful art. Captain Dartrey says, the French excel at it. But it asks for a weapon... ...diated, emerged from the tideway to cross the square, having thoughts upon Art, which were due rather to the suggestive proximity of the National Gall... ...ing to vinous talk in the streets by day; which impression placed him on a deco- rous platform above the amusing gentleman; to whom, how- ever, he gre... ..., but if he was humorous, she forgave; and if to- gether they appalled the decorous, it was great gain. Her supple person, pretty lips, the style she ... ...nd owner of the place: ‘There you see Lakelands.’ The conveyances from the railway station drew up on a rise of road fronting an undulation, where our... ...eed, to do proper homage to the lady he so much respected. He had left the railway-station on foot instead of taking a fly, be- cause of a calculation... ... of Our Conquerors records, items, anticipations, of the manlier sports to deco- rate, were his current themes; all being chopped and tossed and mixed... ...e it, besides the jotting down of trains and the station for the change of railways, Mr. Du- rance could say, that the active form of our sympathy con...

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... his gram mar was bad, his construction worse, and his profanity so void of art that it was an element of weakness rather than strength in his conver... ...road stretching up through Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky, to Northern railway centers, began to divert the passenger travel from the steam ers... ...lay a boat if he has not a fine genius for steering. Steering is a very high art. One must not keep a rudder dragging across a boat’s stem if he wants... ...ich has not suffered from the assaults of the scientists. “AFTERNOON. At the railway stations the loafers carry both hands in their breeches pockets;... ... have had a comfortable time there. It is large, and well conducted, and its decorations do not make one cry, as do those of the vast Palmer House, in... ...How he has im proved in comeliness in five and twenty year and in the noble art of inflating his facts.] After these musings, I said aloud— “I should... ...boat threw the miles out behind her with satisfac tory despatch. We found a railway intruding at Chester, Illinois; Chester has also a penitentiary n... ...man of the name of Stewart, who was looking after two slaves which Murel had decoyed away, fell in with him and obtained his confidence, took the oath... ... is a huge granite U.S. Custom house—costly enough, genuine enough, but as a decoration it is inferior to a gasometer. It looks like a state prison. B...

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... I recollect aright.” “You came back by the trap that took me to Camelford railway station. It was close on the Jubilee, Victoria’s Jubilee, because I... ...hrust him forward across the bridge, and he was in a little narrow passage decorated with geometrical patterns. “I want to see more of that,” cried Gr... ...any of the places Graham had see thus far, this second hall appeared to be decorate with extreme rich- ness. On a pedestal at the remote end, and more... ...Council sat. Thence they wandered at last to the walls of the hall. It was decorated in long painted panels of a quasi-Japanese type, many of them ver... ...y V enusberg. He forgot the part played by the model in nineteenth century art, and gave way to an archaic indignation. He rose, angry and half ashame... ... and back, was as much as was comfortable for the farmer. But directly the railways came into play, and after them the light railways, and all the swi... ...had spoken. Strange places reminiscent of the legendary Sybaris, cities of art and beauty, mercenary art and mercenary beauty, sterile wonderful citie... ...ved each other. With amazing foresight it spent great sums of money on the art of flying, holding that invention back against an hour foreseen. It use... ...terprise, it gathered greedily. And it drilled and marshalled its men, its railway police, its roadway po- lice, its house guards, and drain and cable...

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...ch it had probably acquired in warehousing), and damp, alike had a look of decomposition. ‘The gentleman, father.’ The figure at the red fire turned, ... ... a literary man—with a wooden leg—’ he bestowed an admiring look upon that decoration, as if it greatly en- hanced the relish of Mr Wegg’s attainments... ...cellaneous. I have just sent home a Beauty—a perfect Beauty—to a school of art. One leg Bel- gian, one leg English, and the pickings of eight other pe... ...rofits of it?’ ‘She knows the profits of it, but she don’ t appreciate the art of it, and she objects to it. “I do not wish,” she writes in her own ha... ... s up there! I sit here of a night surrounded by the lovely trophies of my art, and what have they done for me? Ruined me. Brought me to the pass of b... ...ohn Rokesmith read his abstracts aloud. They were all about the new house. Decorator’s estimate, so much. Furniture esti- mate, so much. Estimate for ... ...t country tending to the Thames, where Kent and Surrey meet, and where the railways still be- stride the market-gardens that will soon die under them.... ...hand be to get a man in, or get a man out, or get a man over, or promote a railway, or jockey a railway, or what else, nothing is under- stood to be s... ...r to the men of Pocket-Breaches, only Podsnap and Twemlow accompany him by railway to that sequestered spot. The legal gentleman is at the Pocket-Brea...

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...view; they won’t wait for truth; you may as well reason with the sea, or a railway train, as in such a case with an editor; and, as it makes no differ... ...d to ask for a more determi- nate adjudication on their claims as works of art. At present, I feel authorized to make haughtier pretensions in right o... ...he grave, the coffin, the face are sealed up forever and ever. Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humbl... ...y illumination (from the sun) mingling with the earthly emblazonries (from art and its gorgeous coloring) of what is grandest in man. There were the a... ...n, upon the discovery of some supposed energy that I had manifested, I was decorated with the Order of the Bath. My reading had been extensive enough ... ... enough to give me some vague aerial sense of the honor involved in such a decoration, whilst I was pro- foundly ignorant of the channels through whic... ...h my brother con- sidered particularly vulgar, since natural propriety and deco- rum should have whispered to an old lady that a young gentle- man mig... ...osts in the neighborhood of Killala, and could be descried from el- evated stations in that town. Stories travelled simultaneously to Killala, every h... ...r public exhibition, she made us both fully sensible of the very equitable stations which she assigned to us in her regard. She was neither very brill...

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...ers, brandishing their fowls and their banners in a manner to frighten the decorum of the universe. Where were our men? The returns of the census of o... ...ench of Paris, its latest refinements of pronunciation and polish, and the art of conversing. He had read the French tragic poets and Moliere; he coul... ...hrash numbers for a time; in the end the numbers will be thrashed into the art of beating their teachers. It is bad policy to fight the odds inch by i... ...in spite of my nursery tastes, he drags me whither he lists. It is artless art and monstrous innovation to present so wilful a figure, but were I to c... ...the golden Venetian streets of Carpaccio: she must have an open gondola to decorate in his manner, gaily, splendidly, and mock at her efforts—a warn- ... ... sir, she is not a Radical. Do you take me?’ Rosamund Culling drove to the railway station on her way to Bevisham within an hour after Mr. Romfrey’s e... ...was dreaming of Renee, by Mrs. Culling) concerning a lieutenant’s shoulder decorations, most gravely; informing him of the anchor on the lieutenant’s ... ...the public debt and remit taxa- tion, by originally retaining the lines of railway, and fasten- ing on the valuable land adjoining stations. Hundreds ... ... enjoyed the aristocratic privilege of being twelve miles from the nearest railway station. Alighting here on an evening of clear sky, Beauchamp found...

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...hen the church was reseated, enough wood remained over. The balusters were deco- rated with emblems of the Four Evangelists. “I’ve had the stove light... ...ection of prizes, worthless books on bad paper, but in gor- geous bindings decorated with the arms of the school: his position had freed him from bull... ...of which was a picture of the Good Shepherd and a lamb, and on the other , decoratively framed in red lines, a short prayer which had to be said befor... ... back to T ercanbury in time for call-over. As he sat in the corner of the railway carriage he saw that he had done nothing. He was angry with himself... ...reatment of Harriet; he 129 W. Somerset Maugham dabbled in the history of art (on the walls of his rooms were reproductions of pictures by G. F. Watt... ...phesied his future eminence. In course of time he became an au- thority on art and literature. He came under the influence of Newman’s Apologia; the p... ...tell her. ” “Will you promise?” When he had done this, she told him how an art-student who had a room on the floor above her—but she interrupted herse... ... contemplate the masterpiece and then took him to a picture representing a railway-station. “Look, here’s a Monet,” she said. “It’s the Gare St. Lazar... ...on. “Look, here’s a Monet,” she said. “It’s the Gare St. Lazare.” “But the railway lines aren’t parallel,” said Philip. “What does that matter?” she a...

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...t a time when every week sees the town banker drawn from our rural gentry; railway directors in ev- ery quarter transferring themselves indifferently ... ... to her deportment. I reported to Lord Massey, in terms of unexceptionable decorum, those flattering expres- sions of homage, which sometimes from the... ...as the elementary base of Schreiber; and the superstructure, or Corinthian decoration of his fron- tispiece, was, that Schreiber cultivated one sole s... ...rations of men, even though far below the higher efforts of human creative art—as, for example, the “De Imitatione Christi,” or “The Pilgrim’s Progres... ...for this is one of the cases in which we all felicitate ourselves upon the art and gift of forgetting; that art which the great Athenian* noticed as a... ...the gift—that she should be embalmed as perfectly as the resources in that art of London and Paris could accomplish, and that once a year Mr. White, a... ... masonry. Higher by far than the Mogul gifts of mile-stones, or travelling stations, or even roads and tanks, were the gifts of security, of peace, of... ... is by imperfect power, turned against its master, that men are snared and decoyed. Here in Oxford I should be called upon to commence a sort of es- t... ...they expect; and the result is what I represent—that people in the highest stations, and such as bring them continually into contact with inferiors, a...

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...mantic and historic sites, such as the land of Italy abounds in, offer the art- ist a questionable aid to concentration when they them- selves are not... ...me such apology for a motive. These are the fascinations of the fabulist’s art, these lurking forces of expansion, these necessities of upspringing in... ...xion than that of the perfect dependence of the “moral” sense of a work of art on the amount of felt life concerned in producing it. The question come... ..., he had an ugly, sickly, witty, charming face, furnished, but by no means decorated, with a straggling moustache and whisker. He looked clever and il... ...n. Her own large house, remarkable for its assortment of mosaic tables and decorated ceilings, 64 The Portrait of a Lady was unfurnished with a libra... ... em- ployed upon wonderful tasks of rich embroidery, cush- ions, curtains, decorations for the chimneypiece; an art in which her bold, free invention ... ... the Almanach de Gotha, with the best shops, the best hotels, the hours of railway- trains. He could order a dinner almost as well as Mr. Luce, and it... ... tracted friendships, in travelling, with great freedom, and had formed in railway-carriages several that were among her most valued ties. Ralph was m... ...nder her cousin’s escort, and Ralph Touchett, though usually restive under railway discipline, thought very well of the successive hours passed in the...

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...ael’s “Madonnas” and “Il Trovatore” were her beau ideals of literature and art. She dreamed of Italy, Rome, Naples, and the world’s great “art-centres... ...She looked forward to long conversations with the young man on literature, art, and ethics. But Presley had disappointed her. That he—outside of his f... ... under the insistent caressing of the rain. The hard, sun-baked clods were decomposing, the crev- ices between drinking the wet with an eager, sucking... ...ves, and these were immediately seized upon and affixed as supple- mentary decorations to the tri-coloured cambric upon the inside walls of the barn. ... ...ows in at their sides, glancing furtively from under their eyebrows at the deco- rations or watching with intense absorption young Vacca, 184 The Oct... ...d for some time studying it thoughtfully. It was a commissioner’s official railway map of the State of California, completed to March 30th of that yea... ...of California, completed to March 30th of that year. Upon it the different railways of the State were accurately plot- ted in various colours, blue, g... ... up the business left over by the old board and in the comple- tion of the railway map. But now, the decks were cleared. It was about to address itsel... ...e to further the pretensions of a sculptor friend of his, who wished to be Art Director of the affair. In the matter of this Fair and Flower Festival,...

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...er, he had an ugly, sickly, witty, charming face, furnished, but by no means decorated, with a straggling moustache and whisker. He looked clever and ... ...omen don’t know how to write them, but my mother has thoroughly mastered the art of condensation. ‘Tired America, hot weather awful, return England wi... ...very particular about the appearance of her linen) was not a mistress of her art. At fixed intervals she paid a visit to her own country; but this last... ...dis americanizing, nor had he a desire to teach his only son any such subtle art. It had been for himself so very soluble a problem to live in England... ...ion. Her own large house, remarkable for its assortment of mosaic tables and deco rated ceilings, was unfurnished with a library, and in the way of p... ...sually employed upon wonderful tasks of rich embroidery, cushions, curtains, decorations for the chimney piece; an art in which her bold, free inventi... ...th the Almanach de Gotha, with the best shops, the best hotels, the hours of railway trains. He could order a dinner almost as well as Mr. Luce, and i... ...contracted friendships, in travelling, with great freedom, and had formed in railway carriages several that were among her most valued ties. Ralph was... ... under her cousin’s escort, and Ralph Touchett, though usually restive under railway discipline, thought very well of the successive hours passed in t...

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...within the very shortest possible space of time after the ar rival of the railway train at Euston Square. And com missions and remembrances do so cr... ...yards and by places, and some of them, from the gorgeous quality of their decorations, might have ‘gone on’ without al teration as triumphal cars in... ...e. Such proceedings as I saw here, were conducted with perfect gravity and decorum; and were certainly calculated to inspire attention and respect. Th... ...nown to do elsewhere; and conducts all its pro ceedings with the greatest decorum. The irritability, which would otherwise be expended on their own f... ...n, though there were very few among them (if any) who had not acquired the art within the prison gates. The women, all in one large room, were employe... ... court an action was trying, for damages sustained in some accident upon a railway. The witnesses had been examined, and counsel was addressing the ju... ...singular kind of coaching terminates at Fredericksburgh, whence there is a railway to Richmond. The tract of country through which it takes its course... ...girls’ school, reading was proposed; and as I felt tolerably equal to that art, I expressed my willingness to hear a class. Books were distributed acc... ...ut rather fierce and warlike in appearance for a professor of the peaceful art of healing, bursts out of the concourse with his right arm extended, an...

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...n, that thing is heresy, worthless for knowing and wicked to consider. Our railway station is the final aspiration of architec- ture. Sam Clark’s annu... ...envy of the four counties which constitute God’s Country. In the sensitive art of the Rosebud Movie Palace there is a Mes- sage, and humor strictly mo... ...ng women who, with calves bulging in heavy-ribbed woolen stockings beneath decorous blue serge bloomers, thuddingly gal- loped across the floor of the... ..., books of reference, was easy and not too somniferous. She reveled in the Art Institute, in sym- phonies and violin recitals and chamber music, in th... ...in a high school, a chief clerk from the Great 15 Sinclair Lewis Northern Railway offices, a young lawyer. But there was also a stranger, a thick tal... ... the dust of bran, a patent medicine advertisement painted on its roof. Ye Art Shoppe, Prop. Mrs. Mary Ellen Wilks, Christian Science Library open dai... ...st a fireplace. “We’ll have a new house in a couple of years, anyway.” She decorated only one room. The rest, Kennicott hinted, she’d better leave til... ...Even while they were removing their overshoes they were peeping at the new decorations. Carol saw Dave Dyer secretively turn over the gold pillows to ... ..., a Poor Interior, and a Rich Interior, the last also useful for rail- way stations, offices, and as a background for the Swed- ish Quartette from Chi...

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...er was redeemed in their sight by his devotion to music. Music was now the Art in the ascendant at Brookfield. The ladies (for it is as well to know a... ...en known to him, with familiar indiffer- ence, as things below the musical Art, gave a distinguishing tone to Brookfield, from which his French accent... ...emmed the natural flow of conversation, but prevented her imagination from decorating the reminiscence of it subsequently (which was her profound secr... ... making her virgin effort at the caricaturing of our sex in his person: an art for which she promised well. Out of the long black shadows of the solit... ...o farther than the door. There I kissed her, full of love, and reached the railway. They asked me where I was going, and named places to me: I did not... ...ounced out. “Neighbours should be neighbourly.” This abrupt invitation was decorously accepted. “Plain dinner, you know. Nothing like what you get at ... ...tered the Brookfield grounds as Ipley had done, and with a similar body of decorated Clubmen; sounding along until it faced the astonished proprietor,... ...on with her in dead silence through the night, to the third station of the railway for London. “Is this a mad person?” asked the Hon. Mrs. Bayruffle. ... ...gh his veins even with that clumsy effort of imitation. He walked from the railway to Brookfield through the circle of firs, think- ing of some seriou...

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... lot of time.” She looked at him expectantly, as if between them they were decorating a small figure of herself, and she saw him hesitating in the dis... ...agree- ably mixed with books which bore the gilt of college arms; and, for decoration, there hung upon the wall photo- graphs of bridges and cathedral... ...great days of the nineteenth century, when every department of letters and art was represented in England by two or three illustrious names. Where are... ...th a character of its own. Perhaps it was the chief triumph of Katharine’s art that Mrs. Hilbery’s character pre- dominated. She and Mr. Hilbery appea... ...people who wished to meet, either for purposes of enjoyment, or to discuss art, or to reform the State, had a way of suggesting that Mary had better b... ...rmal type, who would have passed unnoticed in an omnibus or an underground railway. It was notable that the talk was confined to groups, and was, at f... ...ore deciding to stop an omnibus or encounter light again in an underground railway. Sandys, who was a barrister with a philosophic tendency, took out ... ...; some cause or idea or even (so her fancy ran) for some woman seen from a railway train, hanging up clothes in a back yard. When he had found this be... ...e Minister advancing to meet his Cabinet. By his orders the table had been decorated beforehand with six sheets of blotting-paper, with six pens, six ...

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...dge of his wishes, and the con- stant practice had so perfected her in the art that she guessed the old man’s meaning as quickly as if he himself had ... ...tanist in the Jardin des Plantes. “Does it require much study to learn the art of telegraphing?” asked Monte Cristo. “The study does not take long; it... ...iosity had been enough to lead them to overleap the bounds of prudence and decorum. And all present, even including Cavalcanti and his son, notwithsta... ...est in the pursuit of some whim as you do, M. Danglars, in promoting a new railway line; you, M. de Villefort, in condemning a culprit to death; you, ... ...ns instead of beds, and pipes instead of furniture. The drawing-rooms were decorated with the rarest pictures by the old masters, the boudoirs hung wi... ...ne into the garden, and was talking with Major Cavalcanti on the projected railway from Leghorn to Flo- rence. Monte Cristo seemed in despair. He took... ...; that was your business. In March there was a question about a grant to a railway. Three com- panies presented themselves, each offering equal securi... ...your irregularities from your husband, who has but the commencement of the art — for generally husbands will not see — you would then have been but a ... ...rrives in Paris” — “My dear grandmother,” interrupted Valentine, “consider deco- rum — the recent death. You would not have me marry under such sad au...

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...ng man that touched her exceedingly; even when fresh from a very civil and deco- rous combat with his father, and a ripping-up of all the an- cient gr... ...Mary on board the Valdivia; and, in spite of all Miss Ponsonby’s horror of railways, he persuaded her to trust herself under his care to Liverpool. Sh... ...rom famine. ‘I know you had it for me,’ said Louis. ‘If Jane excels in one art before all others, it is in mutton-broth.’ Oliver darted a glance as if... ...ourhood of mountains; the fresh September breeze was laden with smoke, and stations stood thick upon the line. As the train dashed up to one of these,... ...bliss are over the ‘Money- market and City intelligence,’ or in discussing railway shares with Sir Andrew. All the rest is an obstinate and dismal all... ...ly sit quiet in a corner,’ said Clara. ‘So you will, in many a corner of a railway carriage.’ She smiled a little. ‘The truth is,’ she said, ‘that poo... ...ied Lord Fitzjocelyn the plate containing a chop resembling Indian rubber, decorated with grease and with two balls of nearly raw carrot, and followed... ...lace called Guallaval seemed to be the most squalid and forlorn of all the stations—outside, an atmosphere of mosquitoes; inside, an atmosphere of bra...

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...acious hall, with a raised gallery at one end for the musicians, the walls decorated with the glorious paintings collected by Francois I., Greek and R... ...blame for being with thy husband,’ he answered, clasp- ing her hand. ‘Thou art mine henceforth. I will soon cut our way out of the web thy treacherous... ...ey met his. Behind the Queen’s chair a few words could be spoken. ‘Ma mie, art thou well again? Canst bear this journey now?’ ‘Quite well, now! quite ... ... first planned, enabled Osbert to carry his whole crew safely past all the stations where passports were demanded. He had much wished to procure surgi... ... is forged?’ said Lord Walwyn, aware that handwriting was too difficult an art, and far too crabbed, among persons of Osbert’s class, for there to be ... ...ear itself out, and left her niece to herself. Of the seven nuns, two were decorously gay, like their Mother Abbess; one was a prodigious worker of ta... ... the project. There was what in later times has been termed an underground railway amid the persecuted Cal- vinists, and M. Gardon knew his ground wel... ...nds. Let Sir Duke look well to it, and take care that her poor boy was not decoyed among them. The Frenchman might be cutting his throat at that momen...

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...r Leonard; but it was not sorrow brought visibly before him, and after the decorous space of commiseration, the smiles were bright again, and Mary hea... ...ves in the cool pretty drawing-room, rather overcrowded with furniture and decoration, fresh and tasteful, but too much of it, and a contrast to the M... ...eat things,’ said Dr. May, ‘and it is a very easy journey—only four hours’ railway, and a ten miles’ drive.’ Averil’s face was full of consternation; ... ...neborough fungus. There are places in Wales nearer by the map, but without railway privi- lege; and as to a great gay place, they would all be sick of... ...all the good things she had learned at Brighton, had not been numbered the art of ruling her own spirit. 45 Yo n g e CHAPTER IV CHAPTER IV CHAPTER IV... ...orrespondence. Dr. Spencer acted escort, being far more serviceable on the railway than his untravelled friend, whose lame arm, heed- less head, and a... ... Yo n g e tell the blessing there might be in dwelling on them with loving decoration, or having them placed where the eye and thought might be won by... ...PTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIII Prisoner of hope thou art; look up and sing, In hope of promised spring. —Christian Y... ...ere, such as people wrote before the penny- post had spoilt the epistolary art—long, minute, and over- flowing with brilliant happiness. Several of th...

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...e, did not say very much—a novelist, a mechanical ex- pert of some sort, a railway peer, geniuses, hairy and Celtic, people of no clearly definable po... ...ted assurances of his na- tive rectory, and held by Church, Crown, Empire, decorum, respectability, solvency—and compulsory Greek at the Little Go—as ... ...crowned. Close upon that event came a wave of social discontent, the great railway strike, a curious sense of social and political instability, and th... ...he fifteenth century, and on the left a rather more numerous group of less decorative ar- tisans. With them their wives and children had been shown, a... ...ater-colour accomplish- ments or none at all, and no other relations with “art.” At the skirts of this crowning British world Mrs. Garstein Fel- lows ... ... enthusiastic. She was really on proba- tion for higher levels; it was her decolletage delayed her. If only she kept off theosophy and the Keltic rena... ...siveness. “That sort of thing belongs to the dark ages of the ‘pothecary’s art. I will tell you exactly my guesses and suppositions about you. At the ... ...It’s all the property of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners that side of the railway,” said the agent, picking his teeth with a pin. “Lazy lot. Dreadful... ...hitect—some City a’chitect. Some man who has built B’anch Banks or ‘ailway stations. That’s if you think it pleases God…. B’eak young Venable’s hea’t…...

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...g garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions. The walls were decorated with several hunting whips, two or three bridles, a saddle, and a... ...blooming old lady, who looked as if she were well skilled, not only in the art and mys tery of manufacturing home made cordials greatly to other peop... ...a large inn with a sign post in front, displaying an object very common in art, but rarely met with in nature—to wit, a blue lion, with three bow legs... ...inion of all around, as a most excellent and undeniable judge of the whole art and mystery of the noble game of cricket. ‘Capital game—well played—som... ...RONGLY ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE POSITION, THAT THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE IS NOT A RAILWAY THE QUIET SECLUSION of Dingley Dell, the presence of so many of the... ...sembled. The meal was hastily despatched; each of the gentlemen’s hats was decorated with an enormous blue favour, made up by the fair hands of Mrs. P... ...king out from an open shirt collar; and to contemplate the sugar loaf hat, decorated with ribbons of all The Pickwick Papers 196 colours, which he wa... ...taken prisoner. The procession then reformed; the chairmen re sumed their stations; and the march was re commenced. Mr. Pickwick’s indignation during...

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...nce inventions and adventures. It was not a science then – it was a living art; and it visibly grew under the eyes and between the hands of its practi... ...ion.’ If my grandfather were throughout life a thought too studious of the art of getting on, much must be for- given to the bearded and belated stude... ...en a midwife is recom- mended, not at all for proficiency in her important art, but because she has ‘a sister whom I [the correspondent] es- teem and ... ... other apparatus of various descriptions connected with the fitting of the railways. The landing-master’s crew were occupied in assisting the millwrig... ...ed freely with the boring-irons, and assisted in all the operations of the railways, acting by turns as boatmen, sea- men, and artificers. We had no s... ...and irons, and for purposes connected with the preparations for fixing the railways on the rock. The weather towards the evening became thick and fogg... ...the Hedderwick praam-boat, which had just been brought from Leith, and was decorated with colours for the occasion. Flags were also displayed from the... ... made sail for Arbroath, which she reached about six p.m. The vessel being decorated with colours, and hav- ing fired a salute of three guns on approa... ...ear of his reign, the shipping of the Lighthouse service were this morning deco- rated with colours according to the taste of their respec- tive capta...

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... And a long drawn procession of formidable names it was! Starting with the Railway Systems, Steamer Lines, Standard Oil, Ocean Cables, Diluted Telegra... ...dred cathedrals, was being gratefully welcomed and blest in papal Rome and decorated with the Golden Rose which she had so honorably earned, what was ... ...i ness again; she had risked their whole fortune in a purchase of all the railway systems and coal and steel companies in the country on a margin, an... ...id not know he was being nibbled at; but at last, chance accomplished what art had failed in. In illustration of some thing under discussion which re... ...HARMING HOME!—my new one; a fine great house, with pictures, and delicate decorations, and rich fur niture, and no gloom anywhere, but all the wilde... ...ing away—we don’t know whither; and down comes the cur tain. McClintock’s art is subtle; McClintock’s art is deep. Not many days afterward, as surrou... ...he orchestra, in the midst of the musicians. This does not seem to be good art. In the first place, the girl would be in the way, for orchestras are a... ... of anguish roll, she may promenade the delight ful walks of some garden, decorated with all the flowers of nature, or she may steal out along some g... ...rly, unceasingly, unrestingly. It goes to ev ery well known merchant, and railway official, and manu facturer, and capitalist, and Mayor, and Congre...

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......................................................................... 5 P ART I—LETTERS ................................................................ ........................................................................ 67 P ART II—LIFE .................................................................. ...recarious hold on life. A bridge constructed according to the rules of the art of bridge- building is certain of a long, honourable and useful career.... ...le. 22 Notes on Life and Letters ALPHONSE DAUDET—1898 IT IS SWEET to talk decorously of the dead who are part of our past, our indisputable possessio... ...ation is with the dead alone. That is why our talk about them should be as decorous as their silence. Their generosity and their discre- tion deserve ... ...ess rather than possessed by you. Moreover, as we sat together in the same railway carriage, they were looking forward to a voyage in space, whereas I... ...er-buckets, pouring in the pas- sengers, and dipping them out of the great railway station under the inexorable pallid face of the clock telling off t... ... on board a North Sea coaster, I had come up from Lowestoft— my first long railway journey in England—to “sign on” for an Antipodean voyage in a deep-... ...trade alone, there would have been no such exaggeration of mere size), you deco- rate it in the style of the Pharaohs or in the Louis Quinze style—I d...

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...,” said Dorothea, whose slight regard for domestic music and feminine fine art must be forgiven her, considering the small tinkling and smearing in wh... ...f teaching, you know—else this is just the thing for girls—sketching, fine art and so on. But you took to drawing plans; you don’t understand morbidez... ... in the world; presenting the most perfect interchange between science and art; offering the most direct alliance between intellectual con- quest and ... ...gave a man an opportunity for some indignant re- solve to reject its venal decorations and other humbug, and to be the possessor of genuine though und... ...ch he had not such close contact with “business” as to get often honorably deco- rated with marks of dust and mortar, the damp of the engine, or the s... ...stage-coach, which carried him to Brassing; and there he took the new-made railway, observing to his fel- low-passengers that he considered it pretty ... ...of business which was beginning to breed just then was the construction of railways. A projected line was to run through Lowick parish where the cattl... ...ken by astonishment; and thus it happened that the infant struggles of the railway system en- tered into the affairs of Caleb Garth, and determined th... ...is regarded as preliminary.” Mr. Hawley’s mode of speech, even when public decorum repressed his “awful language,” was formidable in its curtness and ...

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...ary instances were cited amongst the highest circles of her success in the art which she professed. So ample were the pecuniary trib- utes which she l... ...ty and good feeling that struck us as remarkable in a person professing an art usually connected with so much of conscious fraud, she rose to take her... ...ed her playfully to insist upon the fullest application of the Hungarian’s art to her own case; nay, she would have the hands of our little Francis re... ...ly into the garden, almost at the same time with Calderon. Both took their stations behind trees; Calderon watching nothing but the burning candles, C... ...to my rescue? Or had you acquired any knowledge of the plot by which I was decoyed into this snare?’ Weseloff answered very candidly that mere acciden... ...sation, of ruin and restoration. She recasts her glorious habi- tations in decomposing them; she lies down for death, which perhaps a thousand times s... ...1845, and the report is now, (August, 1846,) gathering strength, that some railway potentate, having taken a fancy for the ancient college of Glasgow,... ...nciful colors of things, absolutely by choice, under the Bagdad Caliphate, decorated a most favorite hero with the title of the Ass—which title is rep... ...aved a road to the moon. And what is that expressed in time? Let us see: a railway train, worked at the speed of the Great West- ern Express, accompli...

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...e the same, and animals into the bargain. That is all we got from Science. Art is the specific. We have little to learn of apes, and they may be left.... ... be left. The chief consideration for us is, what particu- lar practice of Art in letters is the best for the perusal of the Book of our common wisdom... ...is most complimentary) as a gentleman of family and property, an idol of a decorous island that admires the con- crete. Imps have their freakish wicke... ...was performed by a gentleman supremely advanced at a very early age in the art of cutting. Young Sir Willoughby spoke a word of the rejected visitor t... ... Mrs. Mountstuart’s word; and whither, into what fair region, and with how decorously voluptuous a sen- sation, do not we fly, who have, through mourn... ... until Crossjay related how that he had stood to salute on the road to the railway, and taken off his cap to Sir Willoughby, and Sir Willoughby had pa... ...sed a long courtship on us, my Clara; and I, perhaps lamenting the laws of decorum—I have done so!—still felt the benefit of the gradual initiation. I... ...d, as if wealth had been imputed to Miss Dale; adding: “No male cousin.” A railway station fly drove out of the avenue on the circle to the hall-entra... ... forgiven because of the mouths he had to feed as a flyman attached to the railway station, where this gentleman, the colonel, hired him, and he belie...

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...easel, stood an unfin- ished picture, a feeling of inability to advance in art, a sense of his incapacity, came over him. He had often had this feelin... ...is he had given up military service, feeling sure that he had a talent for art, and had looked down with some disdain at all other activ- ity from the... ... and the continual blessing of the people by the priests, who held candles decorated with flowers, and repeated the cry of “Christ is risen!” “Christ ... ...the details of the external examination of the enormous, fat, swollen, and decomposing body of the merchant who had been making merry in the town. The... ...” said Stephen, getting a large soup ladle out of the sideboard, which was deco- rated with a number of silver vases. He made a sign with his head to ... ...ate to behave politely. “Oh, that is a pity! Why, he has a real talent for art; I have it from Repin’s own lips,” she added, turning to Kolosoff. “Why... ...er sat another woman sew- ing a coarse canvas sack. This was the wife of a railway watchman, [There are small watchmen’s cottages at dis- tances of ab... ...tages at dis- tances of about one mile from each other along the Rus- sian railways, and the watchmen or their wives have to meet every train.] impris... ...Hardly 121 Tolstoy had they brought me back when in comes a gang from the railway. They pestered me so, I did not know how to rid myself of them. Tha...

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...etween Hursley and Baddesley, at a spot called High Trees Corner, near the railway, is marked in the old map, “Here stode Gospell Oke.” It is not far ... ...itants, who chiefly lived along the high road. Moreover, the South Western Railway was being made, and passed so near, that to those whose ears were u... ...olly hedge around was grown by him from the berries of the first Christmas decoration, which he sowed in a row under the wall of the boys’ school, and... ...xperience gained at Otterbourne, so as to aim at Early English rather than Deco- rated style. A bell turret, discovered later at Leigh Delamere in Wil... ...ggested by the schoolmaster’s little daughter going into church before the decoration had been put up, and exclaiming, disappointed, “No Christmas!” “... ...h the old Psalm—In Thee I put my stedfast trust, Defend me, Lord, for Thou art just, is another Ampfield scene, inspiring noble and gentle thoughts fo... ...la Glomerata, and crow garlic, in an old chalk-pit nearly destroyed by the railway and the water works. Otterbourne Farm bounds the churchyard on the ... ...o push or pull out. Scotch (howk). Stook, the foundation of a bee hive. Pe-art, bright, lively, the original word bearht for both bright and pert. Loo... ...xcellent, and he was also noted for what were called Otterbourne buns, the art of making which seems to have gone with him. They were small fair-compl...

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...utre plaisir, meme celui de lire un conte.” —Stendhal P P P P PAR AR AR AR ART ONE: MAKING T ONE: MAKING T ONE: MAKING T ONE: MAKING T ONE: MAKING THE... ...f it only wasn’t so goddam black.” 40 Three Soldiers P P P P PAR AR AR AR ART T T T T T T T T TW W W W WO: O: O: O: O: THE MET THE MET THE MET THE ME... ...s had opened. They covered the head with a blan- ket. P P P P PAR AR AR AR ART T T T T THREE: MA THREE: MA THREE: MA THREE: MA THREE: MACHINES CHINES ... ...f the hospital, that went by the name of sun parlor. It was a dingy place, deco- rated by strings of dusty little paper flags that one of the “Y” men ... ...now the ropes … . All you have to do is keep away from the Olympia and the railway stations, walk fast and keep your shoes shined … and you’ve got wit... ... of ciga- rettes and in the midst of them a little opening, like that of a railway ticket office, in the wall through which the “Y” man sold his commo... ...mud and saluted. The regimental office was a large room that had once been decorated by wan and ill-drawn mural paintings in the man- ner of Puvis de ... ...planed boards that formed other offices cut off the major part of a highly decorated ceiling where cupids with crimson-daubed bottoms swam in all at- ... ... thinking how all the epochs in his life seemed to have been marked out by railway rides at night. The jolt- ing rumble of the wheels made the blood g...